Word Meanings - AVOUCHMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of avouching; positive declaration. Milton.

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• AVOUCHMENT
  The act of avouching; positive declaration. Milton.
• AVOUCHABLE
  Capable of being avouched.
• POSITIVELY
  In a positive manner; absolutely; really; expressly; with certainty; indubitably; peremptorily; dogmatically; -- opposed to negatively. Good and evil which is removed may be esteemed good or evil comparatively, and positively simply. Bacon. Give
• AVOUCH
  thing, to advocate, fr. L. advocare to call to; ad + vocare to call. 1. To appeal to; to cite or claim as authority. They avouch many successions of authorities. Coke. 2. To maintain a just or true; to vouch for. We might be disposed to question
• POSITIVENESS
  The quality or state of being positive; reality; actualness; certainty; confidence; peremptoriness; dogmatism. See Positive, a. Positiveness, pedantry, and ill manners. Swift. The positiveness of sins of commission lies both in the habitude of the
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• POSITIVE
  Corresponding with the original in respect to the position of lights and shades, instead of having the lights and shades reversed; as, a positive picture. Electro-positive. Hence, basic; metallic; not acid; -- opposed to negative, and
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• AVOUCHER
  One who avouches.
• DECLARATION
  That part of the process in which the plaintiff sets forth in order and at large his cause of complaint; the narration of the plaintiff's case containing the count, or counts. See Count, n., 3. Declaration of Independence. See under Independence.
• APPOSITIVE
  Of or relating to apposition; in apposition. -- n.
• OPPOSITIVE
  Capable of being put in opposition. Bp. Hall.
• ELECTRO-POSITIVE
  Of such a nature relatively to some other associated body or bodies, as to tend to the negative pole of a voltaic battery, in electrolysis, while the associated body tends to the positive pole; - - the converse or correlative of electro-negative.
• POSTPOSITIVE
  Placed after another word; as, a postpositive conjunction; a postpositive letter. -- Post*pos"i*tive*ly, adv.
• HAMILTON PERIOD
  A subdivision of the Devonian system of America; -- so named from Hamilton, Madison Co., New York. It includes the Marcellus, Hamilton, and Genesee epochs or groups. See the Chart of Geology.
• PREPOSITIVE
  Put before; prefixed; as, a prepositive particle. -- n.
• COMPOSITIVE
  Having the quality of entering into composition; compounded.
• EXPOSITIVE
  Serving to explain; expository. Bp. Pearson.
• SUPPOSITIVE
  Including or implying supposition, or hypothesis; supposed. -- Sup*pos"i*tive*ly, adv. Hammond.
• DISPOSITIVE
  1. Disposing; tending to regulate; decretive. His dispositive wisdom and power. Bates. 2. Belonging to disposition or natural, tendency. "Dispositive holiness." Jer. Taylor.
• DISPOSITIVELY
  In a dispositive manner; by natural or moral disposition. Sir T. Browne. Do dispositively what Moses is recorded to have done literally, . . . break all the ten commandments at once. Boyle.